Both research data and practical experience has clearly shown that the pre-weaning nutrition and subsequent development of young animals impacts lifetime performance. For dairy heifers, ewe lambs and doe kids, pre-weaning nutrition has a dramatic impact on lifetime milk production. Where animals are reared for meat production, faster growth rates mean animals make more efficient […]
Lynley in a nursery pen with 2-day-old lambs. These babies are checked 3-4 times daily. Lynley Wyeth rears 350-500 lambs annually. In her first few years she had consistent trouble with abomasal bloat. Yoghurtising milk was sometimes successful, but not always. Another challenge was weaning lambs from milk onto concentrates. Searching for a solution, Lynley […]
Southlander Therase Scott has reared lambs and calves for 14 years. In 2017 she introduced Sprayfo Primo Lamb milk replacer to her lambs – to stop abomasal bloat – and she hasn’t looked back.
Texel sheep stud owner Elizabeth McEwan feeds all of her lambs with Launchpad18 colostrum powder, the colostrum feed being instrumental to growing thriving lambs. The McEwans Texel Stud is on 50 acres near Ashburton. Here they run 200 breeding ewes and rear 20-30 lambs by hand each year. Heatwave Milk Warmer system The lambs are […]
Lamb rearers Luke and Rebecca Mahoney were sold on Sprayfo Primo Lamb after just one season, based on the performance of the lambs and the support they received from AgriVantage in achieving their rearing objectives. Based on a 1,200 acre block in Pahiatua, the Mahoney’s have been large-scale calf rearers for some time. 2017 was […]
AgriVantage’s Warren Tanner discusses lamb rearing protocols with Spring Sheep Milk Co Farm Manager John Ryrie and Rearing Manager Jane Egan at the Monavale Pilot Farm in Cambridge. Key to Spring Sheep Milk Co’s overall operation is maximising the production of each individual animal to produce enough high-quality product for their markets. Their approach is […]
Feeding Sprayfo Primo Lamb whey-based milk replacer in an adlib feeding system has been a break-through for rearing orphan lambs, according to Sheep Farmer Peter Black, who up until three years ago was frustrated at lamb mortality from abomasal bloat. “Losses from abomasal bloat, which can take some of the best lambs after a lot […]
West Otago lamb rearer Lyn Chittock has experienced a significant decrease in lamb mortality from bloat over the last three seasons, having lost 40 out of 230 orphan lambs in 2015. She’s also regularly exceeding her weaning targets. So, what’s changed? Lyn switched her lambs to AgriVantage’s Sprayfo Primo Lamb whey milk replacer in 2016. […]
Best practice in animal welfare is sheep farmer Bradley Stewart’s primary reason for rearing orphan lambs with Sprayfo Primo Lamb milk replacer. Abomasal bloat, which killed up to 25% of the lambs some years, is a thing of the past. The lambs are healthy, weaned earlier and are of increasing value to his operation. Home […]
